Disentangling California DroughtsDevastating droughts are a great concern. Droughts disrupt ecosystems, agriculture, and drinking water supplies. Contrary to headlines suggesting we have only 12 years before descending into climate hell with more severe droughts, historically, Californians...

A Look at the Camp Wildfire in ParadiseIn early December I surveyed the horrific Camp Fire disaster in Paradise. Having been director for 25 years of a university field station located in the heart of the Tahoe National Forest, I’ve been a “student” of fire ecology for 30 years and wanted a clos...

Dr Judith Curry's Debates Climate Change1 Cover Good evening everyone. Thank you very much for coming, I look forward to our conversation this evening. 2 Agreement/disagreement There is widespread agreement on these basic tenets: Surface temperatures have increased since 1880 Humans are add...

Science or silence? My battle to question doomsayers about the Great Barrier ReefThe scientific process has been under attack with concerted efforts to marginalize or shut down any skeptical arguments , and avoid the scrutiny and debates that good science demands. The latest has been launched against Dr. Peter Ridd for criticizing the ...

My Interview for the Infectious Myth regards California fires, floods, and natural climate cyclesComparing increased wildfires since 1980 compared to the 1920s I was recently interviewed by David Crowe for his InfectiousMyth podcasts, as we discussed California fires, floods, and natural climatecycles that have nothing to do with global warming and f...

Paul Huber: I've been told by someone I know who works for the National Weather Service that the majority of scientists there think the changes are mostly natural.I did this graphic to give a visual perspective of the radiative forcing of CO2, according to the IPCC, relative to 2 main natural fluxes. At current concentration of ~400ppm it's < 2 W/m^2. The idea that it's a major perturbance to the system is silly.

The Polar-Bear-Gate Saga: How a picture is worth a thousand lies - Paul Nicklen and Michael Mann vs Susan Crockford What oddly seems to surprise so many people, reality canquickly disagree with the hypotheses and speculative models of scientists. The polar bear is a rich case in point. In 2008,the polar bear was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species A...

ListinBearded Seal as Threatened: A Disturbing Victory for Untestable Hypotheses and Flawed ModelsBearded Seal on typical small ice floe I’m a longtime supporter of the Endangered Species Act(ESA). When properly abided by, it seeks to prevent extinctions and requireshumanity to seek a win-win scenario where both humans and all the other speciescan th...

**Wine Country Fire October 2017 As sure as the winds will blow, climate demagogues hijackevery human tragedy to amplify fears of rising CO2 concentrations. Despite thefact that other critical factors were the keys to understanding the devastationof the Wi...